The privatization of K-12 education in Canada is not new. The public and private sectors feel like natural elements of the Canadian education system because they have existed side by side since confederation. However, this thesis challenges that tradition and argues that private education undermines collective responsibility for education as a shared, public good by catering to private interests and isolating students from the public realm. Not only does private education reinforce the likelihood of socio-economic stratification, but the concept of a “public good” is increasingly destabilized as social services like education are privatized. Why, then, does the privatization of K-12 education continue to be an insignificant political issue in Canada? This question is particularly pertinent at a time when neoliberalism is in full swing in the United States, and all the time more apparent in Canada. Neoliberalism’s emphasis on the precedence of economic ideals over concerns for social welfare and democratic participation has transformed the way that we understand “value”. Drawing on a broad range of scholars including Charles Taylor, Richard Pildes, Janice Gross Stein, Henry Giroux, Francois-Lyotard and Michel Foucault, this thesis argues that the values involved in the very concept of private education reinforce, and are reinforced by, neoliberal views about the place of the individual within society, and that these values are detrimental to the concern for education as shared, public good.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007. / Thesis directed by Philip Mirowski for the Department of Economics. "July 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 280-297).

Thèse (M.Ed.) -- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, en association avec Universidade do Estado da Bahia, 2004. / Bibliogr.: f. [120]-127. Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Anthropology, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Anthropology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-258).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Literatures in English." Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2007. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100).

This thesis proposes a critical study of the techniques and motives behind modern commodity feminist advertising, focusing on the appropriation of the “young girl” as a symbol of the feminist cause. This evolving trend in advertising, building upon new movements of empowerment and the recent proliferation of the online feminist space, is shifting the logics of consumption by marketing feminist ideology and activism through consumer purchasing power. By prompting consumers to believe that their purchases can make a significant change, companies are developing brand loyalty in their key marketing demographics by using the image and rhetoric of the “young girl” to tap into a term I call “anti-nostalgia,” a nostalgia whereby women leverage the inherent sentimentality of childhood with a constructive understanding and rejection of the destructively sexist climate they experienced to combat these sociocultural conditions for future generations. Joining theoretical research on branding, user-generated content, and the neoliberal ideology of the consumer-citizen, I argue that these advertising campaigns, coupled with online spaces for public interaction and participation, effectively create channels for their target consumers to contribute to this commodified form of activism. In reality, however, these “feminist” purchases are simply forms of consumer self-therapy in a modern political climate of systemic gender discrimination.

Submitted by Alan Eric Fonseca (eric.fonseca@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-01-05T13:05:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 FONSECA_A_E_Neodesenvolvimentismo_e_capitalismo_dependente_no_Brasil_contemporaneo_Dissertacao_mestrado_2017.pdf: 1316009 bytes, checksum: 761fdbe400b3cc409e0c9d75a0416d25 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Aline Aparecida Matias null (alinematias@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-01-05T17:40:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 fonseca_ae_me_arafcl.pdf: 1316009 bytes, checksum: 761fdbe400b3cc409e0c9d75a0416d25 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-05T17:40:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 fonseca_ae_me_arafcl.pdf: 1316009 bytes, checksum: 761fdbe400b3cc409e0c9d75a0416d25 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A incorporação no Brasil do padrão de civilização ocidental foi lenta e gradual. A construção da sociedade nacional sob uma ordem burguesa e moderna nunca deixou de refletir os séculos de exploração colonial, o sangue indígena e negro derramado, a devastação ambiental e a superexploração da força de trabalho. Olhando-se retrospectivamente a partir o século XXI, o cenário parece ter se alterado pouco, sem rupturas profundas. O capitalismo brasileiro historicamente foi e ainda é dependente em relação aos países hegemônicos do sistema econômico mundial, fato que resulta em boa parte das mazelas que afligem a heterogênea classe trabalhadora nacional. Busca-se evidenciar neste trabalho que o chamado neodesenvolvimentismo guarda enorme distância do nacional desenvolvimentismo que se deu entre 1930 e 1980. O neodesenvolvimentismo, a partir dos anos 2000, sob os governos Lula e Rousseff, é na verdade uma adaptação contemporânea do capitalismo dependente brasileiro dentro dos marcos econômicos e ideológicos do neoliberalismo global. Por isso, o ciclo recente da economia e da política nacional aprofundam as condicionantes estruturais da dependência através da reprimarização econômica e da liberalização financeira. / The incorporation in Brazil of the pattern of Western civilization was gradual. The construction of national society, bourgeois and modern, has always reflected centuries of colonial exploitation, bloodshed, environmental devastation and overexploitation of labor. In the 21st century, few changes, without deep ruptures. Brazilian capitalism was and is dependent on the hegemonic countries of the world economic system, from which the social problems that afflict the national working class result. This work aims to demonstrate that new developmentalism is very different from the classical developmentalism. Starting in the 2000s under the Lula and Rousseff governments, new developmentalism is, in fact, a contemporary adaptation of Brazilian dependent capitalism within the economic and ideological order of global neoliberalism. Hence, the recent pattern of national economy and politics deepens the structural constraints of dependency through economic "reprimarization" and financial liberalization. / 1480612